Health & Veritas Robert Rohrbaugh: Bringing Antiracist Tools to Clinical Practice
Mar 7, 2024
In this engaging discussion, Robert Rohrbaugh, a Yale psychiatry professor focused on antiracist clinical practices, shares insights on combating bias in healthcare. He explores the historical ramifications of medical eugenics and its connection to today’s society. Robert emphasizes the importance of antiracist documentation in clinical settings and details strategies for supporting clinician wellbeing during the pandemic. Lastly, he discusses innovative approaches to integrating mental health support in primary care, including the use of digital therapies.
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Medical Establishment's Eugenics Past
- Prestigious medical voices once promoted eugenics and restrictive immigration as public health measures.
- Harlan Krumholz highlights that a 1923 New England Journal piece endorsed sterilization and exclusion as scientific solutions.
Historic Journal Endorsement Of Eugenic Surgery
- The New England Journal of Medicine historically endorsed eugenic surgery and restrictive immigration policies.
- Howard Forman warns that some language from that era reads disturbingly like modern anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Place Race In Social History
- Don't list race first in a patient's opening line of documentation.
- Robert Rohrbaugh advises placing race in the social history to avoid activating implicit bias.
